[William Mcqueen]

Hi Mike,
Thanks for the info. The http://www.video2stream.com produces the following error message

Directory has no index file.
Browsing this site or directory without an index file is prohibited.

Couldn’t find a home page.

Are there any print or online “manuals” you can recommend.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Hi George,

So nice to hear from you. I did look more closely at Encore CS3, and it indicates that SCC files can be used for closed captioning, but these have to be created “using a third party captioning application” exporting SCC files, and then “by assigning them to clips in a timeline, using the Video Clip Properties panel. Closed captions will synchronize with the source timecode of the video clips you assign to them.” Evidently, the location timing of the “clips” has to be assigned in the third party captioning programme first.

Found a group of “Scenarist Tools” at https://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/SCC_TOOLS/DOCS/VERSIONS.HTML

I only mention this because maybe someone else out there would like to add closed captioning to their product. Frankly, I thought the ADA Law mandated the provision of closed captioning. (Maybe just to governments.)

I remember that DVD Workshop subtitles can mimic the look of captioning, but I hope some day I can figure out how to do it for real myself.

Again, thanks for the lead, George.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Thanks Rich,

>How did you get the original VHS into CS3? I might be missing >something here, but, what about transferring VHS to DV using >analog in or pass through on your camcorder? This would avoid >any intermediate formats. You would be transferring from >analog to AVI.
I transfered the VHS to DVD using a Sony standalone recorder, then converted the VOBs to MPEG and imported into Premiere. This worked well enough, considering the VHS quality. However, when I showed it to my camera operator, he immediately spotted and identified some “shutter” movement in some of the pans. (I tried using my Sony DVMC-DA2 box to go directly into Premiere, but there were too many dropped frames.)

I’ll probably re-transfer to DV tape and then capture the tape. I don’t know why I didn’t do that in the first place.

>I have had good results when presented with a similar >problem. Premiere Elements will accept VOB files from a DVD >but I would avoid the step from VHS to DVD if possible. With >the Premiere Elements solution, sometimes the first VOB file >is fine but if there are other VOB files such as 2 or 3, >there can be a lip sync problem with those after number 1.

The other problem is getting a continuous VOB, but while the lengths can be set in some recorders, it is too difficult to match up the audio as you mention. Oh, well. Don’t think I’ll be doing this any time soon, again.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestion, Mike. I made the timeline as large as possible, and I could not find any empty frame.

What I did find at the very same exact location and frame referenced in the Encore error message was the end of an avi + audio clip. This is the last clip of the edit. I had unlinked the audio from the video, removed some applause from the music, and relinked the clip with shortened audio. On the Audio clip I put constant gain crossfade at the end. I guess I should try removing it and just smooth out the clip by adjusting the track volume. (???)

Because of a short deadline and the holidays, I played out an AVI movie, and successfully rendered 62 minutes to DVD in another, older programme, with no problem at the point in the movie said to be in error. Earlier, running it through Encore had produced the error code, you may remember.

But I’d still like to get to the heart of the matter, because I will still have to use this edit in another situation, but would like to know how to fix this problem for Encore, since it has Dolby, subtitles and I can manually adjust various streaming rates, etc. (I would also like to try out Flash, although I still prefer Quick Time in h.264 resolution. But that is another story…)

Thanks again, Best Wishes in the New Year. The forum and its participants, and the expert gang are a great group to be appreciated.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Thanks, Mike.

That seemed to work, thank you so much. It does leave a slightly longer period of solid black, and I’ll have to smooth out the fade a bit. Don’t understand what happened, since the original footage is just fine in the test I did.

Wonder if you could take a copy of the original and see if it would cover the grey image.. (just wondering., the fix is just fine.)

Thanks again,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

I read that in the help section, but I wasn’t so sure if putting it on another external drive would speed it up I were to render bit-by-bit, rather than a long run. The help section cautions against putting it on an external drive. In this case I running the entire project on one external drive via USB2. What do you think about putting the render files on still another external drive? Hhmm. that might cause complications, I suppose if Windows decides to rename the drives in a different order.

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Picking up on Jon’s “How much of the project you have rendered?”

This issue seems to have surfaced for me as well just now. The two windows of simultaneous video in one frame is continuous for 2 clips just under 60 minutes each, and the “sluggishness” and delay, if I may call it that, only started after I rendered the entire hour – alas, very long – up to 5 plus hours. Previously, I had just rendered only the first 5 minutes while I constructed the Opening Titles. No sluggishness then.

I can dump the rendering files (which are on the same drive as the assets) and will do. Waiting to do a final render, after all the bits and pieces are in place. But I wonder: could you put the render files on another drive to avoid the delay?

The other thing I notice (in dixdiag) is that only half the available page file of 1640MB is in use (on the main programme drive). (CPU 2.8G with 1024MG RAM)

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Hi Jon,
First thanks so much for your help….

Had another thought, I’d like to put a colour matte behind the two frames of video, rather than sit just on black. Does it have to be placed in Video 1 so it is behind the two frames. In some still design programmes, you can send a pic to the back, but I don’t find that here.

But working with resizing the frames has been just fine, and I got some advice from the folks at Gallaudet University about the sizing of the ASL interpreters frame. (Gallaudet is the only University for Deaf people, I believe.)

Thanks so much,

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Thanks for the tip of enlarging the audio tracks. However, in the case of the audio from both cameras, the audio was from a distance and the waveforms not as clear as I would like. Even when I get close to matching I can’t seem to drag the video/audio track smoothly or slowly enough to get a match. I seem to over shoot. I thought of possibly placing a key frame in each, but I can’t get them to match up “perfectly”.

Can you think of any other approach, or method.

Thanks so much,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Thanks so much, Jon.

Couple of things and hope you are able to advise me a bit more.

This box containing Sign Language Interpreters, will continue for most of the 59 minutes of the production.

However, in some of the close-up scenes I want to move the box to the opposite side or I might want to move it to a bottom side.

How does it work: At the point location in the timeline, by the current-time indicator – Can I move the inset frame such that the previous location is maintained (upper right), but in the next frame move it, say, to the opposite side or to the right hand bottom portion of the frame? And then, perhaps, move back to the previous location? I’m not very familiar with motion tracks.

How easy is it to put a border around the “box”?

Thanks again for your help.

Bill in Toronto